Tuesday, March 10, 2009
PieFection - Soccer Balls In Africa
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Family Day
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Power of Eating Dinner Together
Over the years she thought a lot about her mother’s dogged insistence. Why should dinner matter so much when the family was together plenty of other times? Jacob concluded that her mother knew intuitively what researchers now know through scientific study—that something as simple as family dinner can have powerful benefits.
“Some researchers call it the ‘family sacrament,’ and it really is that important,” says Jacob, now a family scientist in BYU’s School of Family Life.
The benefits of family dinner for children have been well documented, but after recently completing a study of IBM workers, Jacob and BYU colleague E. Jeffrey Hill (BA ’77), associate family life professor, now tell us that family dinner benefits parents as well, especially parents who work outside the home.
“If you’re able to make it home for dinner, you feel less conflict with work intruding on your family life and you feel more in control of things—and that translates into a feeling of success,” says Jacob.
But still, only about one-third of American children actually eat dinner with their families regularly. The obstacles are many, with parents’ long working hours at the top of the list. Jacob and Hill cite research showing that tension between work and family life is a significant problem for many people, and they wondered whether family routines and rituals would make a difference. Drawing on family resilience theory, which investigates strategies families use to adapt to stress, they hypothesized that regular family dinner would help offset the negative effects of long working hours. Hill had helped create an extensive survey taken by 41,769 IBM employees, and he got permission to use portions of the data.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Comfort Food (Part 2) Eddington's
Monday, February 2, 2009
Comfort Food (part 1)
What is it about food? When we think of almost any special occasion in our lives, food will be a part of it. Our earliest memories are often of helping our parents “cook.” My kids still come running when they hear the mixer start up, certain that cookies or homemade bread are on the way!